From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: Alex Zeffertt Cc: "Walser, Martin" , linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: unable to uncompess kernel image From: Wolfgang Denk Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 05 Feb 2002 15:52:24 GMT." <3C5FFFB8.5000409@cambridgebroadband.com> Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 17:58:30 +0100 Message-Id: <20020205165835.AD017116B8@denx.denx.de> Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: In message <3C5FFFB8.5000409@cambridgebroadband.com> you wrote: > > I'm a little bit confused as to whether you are trying to build a ramdisk image or a kernel image. Well, as I understood he tried to combine both the kernel and the ramdisk images in one file; this is sometimes useful when you want to deal with a single file only (like when booting from a boot server). In PPCBoot terminology this is called a "multi-file image": $ mkimage -A ppc -O Linux -T multi -C gzip \ -n 'Linux Multiboot-Image' -e 0 -a 0 \ -d vmlinux.gz:ramdisk_image.gz pMulti Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd@denx.de A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away. -- Dr. Boyce, "The Menagerie" ("The Cage"), stardate unknown ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/